My cuties are growing up! Spring means birthday season for us and I now have a six and nine year old…what?!?
First up is Preston:
From this…
and this…
to this…
Preston is sweet, funny, a little wild, and totally wonderful!
And now Maddy:
From this…
and this…
and this…
to this…
Wow again! Maddy is turning into such a great young lady. She is spunky, caring, funny, fashionable and so much fun!
Until next time…h
Well…the blog test worked and I guess I don’t have an excuse not to be posting now 
Here are a few photos to pick up where I last left off…
Look at this cutie!
October trip to the zoo
Halloween
November visit from some of my favorite people…
December
Lucky kids to have their great grandparents in their lives!
Christmas :
New traditions…clementine candles
Spending the holiday with family
Guess that’s all for now. As always, I’ll try to keep up with this poor blog a little better now
I’ve been having some blog issues and lost a huge post I was working on 
Checking to see if it’s working now…
My little cupid…
I must be in a B&W mood…
I love this picture of my nephew Noah….such a cutie!
And a pretty sunset picture from our camping trip last month
Maddy & Ethan are running back to us after hearing strange noises by the pond.
I’m going through some pictures today and just love this one of my gorgeous girl.
Happy Wednesday! (even happier b/c it’s my day off!)
–h
I have done a few layouts recently…but my volume of pages is no where near what it was a few years ago. This was highlighted when I ordered Shutterfly books this week of the kids’ pages from ages 0-5. I was definitely scrapping a lot more when they were younger. I want to get back to that…I’m hoping that creating these books will help. They are each about 80 pages so I can’t wait to see what they look like in print!
Here is what I’ve done recently:
Today starts a 4 day weekend for me…yea!!! Preston and I are off now to his field trip…watching Alexander and the Terrible Horrible Very Bad Day at the Dallas Children’s Theater. Should be fun!
–h
Today has been a great day!
We started the fall soccer season today with Maddy’s game this morning
This year they have goalies and have to follow the offsides rule and are on a much larger field…it’s going to be an interesting season!
The kids enjoyed orange slices after the game
Preston’s game is tonight so we took advantage of the long break between games and worked on something that we’ve needed to do for awhile…GET PRESTON OFF TRAINING WHEELS!!
Ready for the challenge
Maddy came along to show him how it’s done
And after a few shaky starts…HE’S OFF!
I’m so very proud of him…mission accomplished!
We still have stopping and turning to work on, but he’ll get there.
Now off to soccer game #2…Go Wildcats!
–h
The school year has started and, as always, I can’t believe how big the kids are getting!
We finished up school shopping on Sunday and I had a great time spoiling the kiddos a bit.
Preston got some Toms…too stinking cute!
Maddy got feathers…and most of the Justice store!
Preston actually started school 2 weeks ago, so he is very glad that Maddy’s having to get up with him now!
And he humored me today by posing for pictures again on Maddy’s 1st day…
Aaaannnnddd….she’s done with pictures!
2011-12 school year is off to a good start!
Good night…h
It’s official…summer break is over! And I will regret saying this in a week or so, I’m sure but I’m glad to have some routine back into our lives.
Here is some catch-up on the rest of our summer, then 1st day of school post to follow
Beautiful Madeleine…
Summer manicure
Hanging outside…briefly because it has barely been below 100 degrees!
Walking onto the FC Dallas field holding the players hands…pretty exciting!
Killing time while waiting for the game to start…
I got to watch little Brodie while Carolyn took the bigger kids to a museum…scrumptious!
Weekend visit to Houston and kids wrestling on the bed…sorry Drea 
Soccer camp in 105+ degrees…
And we ended the summer with a quick trip to the Gaylord Texan…all iPhone pics unfortunately
And lastly, a long weekend in San Antonio…iPhone pics again
It was a great summer!
